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2013 Spring Festival

2013 Full-Length Festival

Adjudicator - Dennis Johnson

The 2013 Spring Festival will be a travelling festival. The host for the awards banquet will be Belleville Theatre Guild to be held April 7, 2013.

Dennis Johnson is an educator and director with twenty-five years experience as an adjudicator. He holds an M.A. in Educational Drama and has studied theatre in Ontario, New York, and California. A wide-ranging teaching career includes Dramatic Arts teacher qualifications courses at U. of T. and Brock University, as well as a Circus Skills course at the Maggie Bassett Studio. Dennis has also been active in community theatre for over thirty years as an actor, director, producer and set designer for the Road Show Theatre, the Guelph Little Theatre, Royal City Musical Productions and Theatre Guelph. Recent directing credits include Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Schoolhouse (by Leanna Brodie) at the River Run Centre in Guelph. Dennis Johnson has served on the Education and Summer Courses committees of Theatre Ontario. He worked for nine years on the executive of CODE [the Council of Drama in Education - Ontario’s professional association of drama teachers] three of them as President. Dennis also spent three years [2008-2011] as Community Theatre Coordinator for Theatre Ontario. As a director and actor, he has been on the “receiving end” of festival adjudications many times. Dennis has been associated with the Sears Ontario Drama Festival since 1970 as a director and festival coordinator, and has adjudicated at both the District and Regional levels. He has adjudicated for the Association of Community Theatres Central Ontario [ACT-CO] in all three categories – Comedy, Drama and Musical Theatre - and has twice been Preliminary Adjudicator for the Western Ontario Drama League [WODL]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Armagh Sifton-Price Award: Adjudicator Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement(note from Adjudicator: It should be noted that this award was originally donated for Technical Achievement) Presented by Andy TrasukOttawa Little Theatre - "Deathtrap"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Deep River Players Award: Best Visual PresentationPresented by Barbara KobolakPeterborough Theatre Guild - "The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Leonard Beaulne Memorial Trophy: Best Actor in a Major RolePresented by Dave HendersonPrince Edward Community Theatre - "Moon Over Buffalo" Mark Daniher as George Hay